Google introduces 'Go' programming language
Published: 11 Nov 2009 10:29 GMT
Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an open-source, experimental programming language project called Go.
The computing industry is in constant tension between making a fresh start and evolving the current technology. The limits of today's hardware designs and programming technology led the Go team to take the former approach.
"We found some of those problems to be frustrating and decided that the only way to address them was linguistically," said Rob Pike, a principal software engineer working on Go. "We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better."
For more on this story, see Google hopes to remake programming with Go on CNET News.
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